In the continuing effort to move the Fedora project from being the
funded development project were it started, to a completely community-
based effort, I invite you to visit the new "Software" page on the
Fedora Commons web site (http://www.fedora-commons.org/software).
Chris Wilper, Matt Zumwalt and I developed this new way of looking at
the Fedora Create community as a whole effort, including both the
Fedora Repository Service, and all of the software that everyone is
developing on top of it, in one complete view. Please think of it as a
starting point, a suggestion for how to proceed. From the software
page down, everything is in the Fedora wiki. We want to take a
pragmatic view of all of this, the structure we have organized can
change as appropriate. We will follow the "wiki gardening" approach,
that encourages everyone to add the information that they think is
important, not worrying too much about the formalities. Wiki gardeners
will come back and re-organize the wiki, weeding and transplanting as
necessary and desirable.
The view of the Fedora Create community is presented by sorting the
software development into categories to try to make it more
manageable. These categories can be tweaked and changed, or added to
as necessary. In general, each category includes a registry where
everyone can list software that they have developed that they would
like to share, as well as areas where we can discuss hot topics, share
information about standards, list good ideas for new software, etc. I
strongly encourage everyone to tell us about the software that you
have developed, are developing or would like to see developed, in each
category. Please use the registry to list software projects that are
underway, as well as those that are created; it is very useful to all
of us to know what people are working on, as well as what is available
now.
The core Fedora Repository Service must be treated as a special case
in this view of the software and the developers community. It is the
foundation for everything that we are doing. We have a committers
group that will be the keepers of the core. I am very pleased to be
able to say that Chris has rapidly developed this group to be more
community-oriented already. We have 11 committers now, 8 of them are
not DuraSpace employees. The next release of Fedora, 3.3, is being
managed by Kai Strnad (thanks to FIZ Karlsrhue for giving his time!)
and is planned to come out by the end of the year.
It would be really good to begin to consolidate our wiki around this
evolving model. We have begun to move stuff from the developers forum
area already. The area for ideas and discussion around the repository
service is still being developed, but the rest of the Fedora Create
area is ready to go. I have moved and updated much of the content
model stuff already, and Dan Davis is working on getting all of the
info related to workflow issues moved. If any of you has information
that you have been building on the wiki, especially recently, I
encourage you to find a place on the new pages for it. If you don't
see a good place for it right now, let me know.
Lastly, if any of you out there are particularly good at, and/or
interested in, helping keep up the wiki more generally, both in
weeding and transplanting, as well as in guiding the on-going process
to develop better organization, please talk to me. I think that we
could all benefit from an organized wiki-gardeners group!
Thorny
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Thornton Staples
Director of Community Strategy and Alliances
Director of the Fedora Project
DuraSpace, Inc.
[email protected] (202) 684-6952
skype: thorny.staples www.duraspace.org
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